And in other news...

[Martin Holden]

So Kier Starmer is the new Labour Party leader. Good, bad or indifferent?

 

[itsalwaysme]

He's been very quiet for the last month or so, if he keeps that up he could be ok

 

[Clive]

Who ? ................... are the Labour Party ?

 

[lloyd]

I think he will do a good job and be a proper
alternative to Bumbler and his advisor Golam.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Crazy. When Labour have lost the towns of the north and their ‘wall of red’ who do they elect as a leader? Another southern, oxford educated luvie, yet more urbanite arrogance.

Lisa Nandy was the only one who had a chance of wining back the north and that is the only way labour could even stand a chance of contending for power.

 

[jendan]

Crazy. When Labour have lost the towns of the north and their ‘wall of red’ who do they elect as a leader? Another southern, oxford educated luvie, yet more urbanite arrogance.

Lisa Nandy was the only one who had a chance of wining back the north and that is the only way labour could even stand a chance of contending for power.

Starmer is the best choice for them by a mile. Its the likes of Richard Burgon and Lavery who are their problem.Complete idiots! Lavery makes me ashamed to be a geordie.

 

[HolzKopf]

There may be a sh*tstorm. K-S is a sound candidate but I think it was supposed to be a woman as leader or at least deputy...... I think they'll be well miffed

Edit: - it'll be interesting to see their shadow cabinet and whether they pull in one direction with the Gov over the crisis or just carp on about tests, ppe and deaths and what 'they' would have done

2nd Edit:- Angela Rayner now deputy

 

[Bald Rick]

 

[Martin Holden]

Who ? ................... are the Labour Party ?

Don’t you remember them? They were in government some while ago but seem to have disappeared since - back to the 70’s. Joking aside I hope they can become an effective opposition as a democracy needs that.

 

[Smith31]

Conservatives have gone to the left, very little difference in both

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Be interesting who he forms around him

 

[Bill the Bass]

Starmer is the best choice for them by a mile. Its the likes of Richard Burgon and Lavery who are their problem.Complete idiots! Lavery makes me ashamed to be a geordie.

I disagree, on election night Lisa Nandy was the only one talking sense.

 

[topground]

What is the point of the Labour party these days?
Post war they had the purpose of reconstruction and the establishment of the NHS and did it well.
What difference can a Labour offer in 2020?. The far left momentum agenda has been rejected by the electorate but S S will have his hands full in the same way as Kinnock had to rescue Labour from their previous incarnation.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Starmer will be spending the next five years cutting out the cancer that is Momentum. It's Kinnock dealing with Militant, all over again.

 

[primmiemoo]

Crazy. When Labour have lost the towns of the north and their ‘wall of red’ who do they elect as a leader? Another southern, oxford educated luvie, yet more urbanite arrogance.

Lisa Nandy was the only one who had a chance of wining back the north and that is the only way labour could even stand a chance of contending for power.

Eh? I thought his dad a toolmaker, and mum a nurse. State educated - Starmer passed 11+ to go to a Grammar School. Don't think Comprehensives had come in in the area where he grew up.
Feet on the ground man.

Unlike the white bearded one preceding him, he doesn't come fake hippy, champagne socialism, either.

(And no, I don't vote Labour.)

 

[Hindsight]

Lets get ready!!

 

[jimred]

Eh? I thought his dad a toolmaker, and mum a nurse. State educated - Starmer passed 11+ to go to a Grammar School. Don't think Comprehensives had come in in the area where he grew up.
Feet on the ground man.

Unlike the white bearded one preceding him, he doesn't come fake hippy, champagne socialism, either.

(And no, I don't vote Labour.)

That's what he would like you to think but I'll think you'll find his dad owned an engineering factory.

 

[som farmer]

can't remember his no 2, though female, they were both in the shadow cabinet for a while, under Corbyn, so his either a very good avoider of answering questions, ( if he didn't agree with Corbyn, he would have been replaced ), or very good at looking safe, neither a bad thing in politicians, it's their policies that matter.

 

[Bald Rick]

His middle name is Rodney ...

All together .... “This time next year ...”

 

[primmiemoo]

That's what he would like you to think but I'll think you'll find his dad owned an engineering factory.

Gosh! Surely that's impossible! ?

Even if his dad ended up owning a factory, he has/had the skills set.